Necktie-fastener.



No. 702,973. Patented lune 24, I902.

W. LAWRENCE. NECKTIE FASTENER.

(Application filed Sept. 5, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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OF NEW? YORK, N. Y.

NECKTlE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFKCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 702,973, dated June 24, 1902.

Application filed eptember 5,1901. Serial No. 74,430. (No model.)

T0 a/Zl whom, it may concern:

Beit known that 1, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at 28 \rVest Eighth street, New York, county and State of New York, have invented certain newand usefullmprovements in Necktie-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a combined collar-button and necktie-securing device of an extremely simple and cheap form of construction which is usually, but not necessarily, when put upon the market provided with a necktie-bow attached thereto; and to such ends said invention consists, in substance, of a securing-plate provided with holes or other suitable means by which the same maybe sewed or otherwise secured upon the back of the bow or tie, a catchingtang, usually of a bifurcate form, extending outward from the securing-plate at a right angle thereto, the two prongs thereof lying in a horizontal plane, being provided with enlarged head-securing portions or lugs extending therefrom outwardly in such horizontal plane, a collar-button having a shank flattened in a horizontal plane and provided with a central slit in such plane adapted to receive the bifurcate catching-tang, the side walls of the shank being provided adjacent to the base-plate with indentations or openings to receive the end securing-lugs of the bifurcations of the tang, so as to lock the same in position when in position therein by the natural resiliency and usually, but not necessarily, a bow or necktie secured to the securing-plate, although it is not to be understood that my invention is necessarily limited to a device necessarily comprising at once all of the devices and parts before mentioned, as said invention consists in the particular construction of certain devices and parts and the combination and arrangement of certain devices and parts, all as hereinafter more particularly set forth in the description and pointed out in the claim.

Such invention is fully shown and described in the following specification, of which-the accompanying drawings form a part, wherein similar letters of reference designate like or equivalent parts wherever found throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a view in perspective, looking from the upper rear and left side, of a necktie provided with my improved form of combined collar-button and necktie-securing device. Fig. 2 is a side view of such combined collar-button and necktie-securing device removed from the tie or bow, taken in central horizontal longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the securing-plate removed from the collar-button; and Fig. 4 is a similar view of the collar-button with the securing-plate removed therefrom, Figs. 2, 3, and 4 being on an enlarged scale from that shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, to form my improved necktie-securing device I provide a securing-plate A and a collar-button 13, formed of any suitable substance, but both usually struck up from any suitable resilient spring sheet metal. vided with holes O, by which the same may be sewed to the center of the tie D, as shown in Fig. 1, and is provided with a central tang E, which is usually formed integral with the plate A, consisting of a piece struck therefrom and bent at right angles thereto, as shown, and such tang E is usually of the bifurcate form shown, the two prongs thereof being provided with the outwardly-extending enlarged head portions or securing-lugs c, which lugs 6 when the tang is in position in the slot F of the collar-button B are by the natural resiliency of the bifurcate arms forming the tang E forced outward into perforations or indentations G in the side wall of the flattened shank H of the button 13, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to hold the securing-plate A, and consequently the necktie or bow D, firmly in position upon the neck of the wearer, the button 13 being provided with a base-piece K and a smaller front piece or head L, and thus serving as a collar-button to keep the collar upon the neckband of the shirt, for which purpose it may be used, if desired, without the addition thereto of the securing-plate A. It is The securing-plate A is pro holes of the neckband of the wearers shirt and the collar buttoned thereon in the usual way, that upon insertion of the bifurcate tang E in the slot F until the lugs e and hole G are in registry, the tie L will be firmly locked in position upon the wearers neck, and that the flattened shank H, will at the same time prevent rotation of the collar-button in the buttonhole, whereby both collar and tie will be held securely in position.

Having now particularly described my said invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a securing device for neckties, 850., the

' combination with a sec uring-plate A having a bifurcate tang E formed integral therewith and extending at a right angle therefrom, the legs of which are provided at the ends with securing-lugs e, of a collar-button 13 having a base K connected with a head L by a shank, wider horizontally than vertically and provided with a horizontal slot F, which extends through the central portion of the shank H and is adapted to receive the bifurcate tang E which is then looked in place by the lockinglugs 2 being forced into the perforations Gin the side wall of the shank by the resiliency of the two legs of the tang, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM LAWRENCE. Witnesses:

ISAAC J. SCHAMEN, DAVIS ZUIDEN. 

